The Progress Party recently asked which Palestinian organizations Norway supports over the development aid budget. Hopefully they will pursue the issue and ask for the books. Chances are there aren’t any. Norway doles out a lot of money in development…
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Aftenposten Wikisquad finds Coca-Cola smut on… Israel
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Aftenposten, having gained access to the latest batch of Wikileaks documents, today gloatingly reveals a minor case of coca-cola related smut on Israel. NOTE: Professor Gonagall has already covered this issue, see below. Too fast, that Gonagall. Too fast. The…
Left-wing historians: do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law
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In order for Israel to what her enemies cast her as, history has to be whatever you want it to be. As it happens, this is exactly the school of thought Norwegian historians subscribe to. Aftenposten’s article above is on…
Aftenposten: Israel prepares for Irani attack
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Aftenposten’s sharpest journalists have been studying the Wikileaks documents and now believe that Israel is preparing for an Irani attack. Aftenposten runs the story as a centerfold today, and several other media have picked up on the story. The article,…
Reductio ad absurdum: Aftenposten editorial answer to Levy’s op-ed
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An Aftenposten editorial today rejects the arguments of Bernard Henri Levy, which were presented in an op-ed in Aftenposten on Sunday. The editorial does not go into specifics. It does not seriously engage in neither debate nor dialogue. What it…
An official ‘yes’ to trade with Israel
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Norway has on several occasions appeared to engage in pseudo-boycott of Israel. Now Aftenposten reports that our current government has signed no less than eleven contracts with Israeli companies. Aftenposten journalist Tarjei Leer-Salvesen reports on how Norwegian authorities have been…
Aftenposten magazine: four pages on KZ, not one word on Jews
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Aftenposten’s weekly A-magasin extra offers a five-page article about the nazi prison camps of WWII, without mentioning the Norwegian Jews with as much as a word. Is this appropriate? The article, by journalist Lars Kluge, is published in the Aftenposten…
Triangulation: Lars Akerhaug interviews Erik Fosse and Waage
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Aftenposten today presents the journalistic equivalent of triangulated fire, with the USA squarely in the sights. Aftenposten is Norway’s second largest newspaper. Its chief editor Hilde Haugsgjerd is a former maoist, formerly married to maoist chieftain and professor of journalism…
Is Aftenposten moving towards normalization?
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Is Aftenposten developing a less extreme perspective on the only democracy in the Middle East? Aftenposten’s chief editor is a former Maoist who for a long time let journalist Lars Akerhaug, a former leader of the Palestinakomite, write stories on…
Aftenposten falls for ‘bottles o’ booze’ story
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Aftenposten is one of Norway’s two largest newspapers. Today it published a story based on a story in Swedish Aftonbladet, which again is based on an anonymous source claiming that the Israeli embassy in Sweden bribes Swedish policemen to let…
Aftenposten endorses ‘Tears of Gaza’
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Aftenposten is one of Norway’s two largest newspapers. Aftenposten’s chief editor Hilde Haugsgjerd is a former Maoist. One of the newspapers journalists covering the Middle East is a former member of Palestinakomiteen. Today Aftenposten endorses Vibeke Løkkeberg’s movie “Tears of…
Increased radicalization among Oslo-Muslims
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Aftenposten today reports that Labor (Arbeiderpartiet) politician Jan Bøhler has been contacted by “several” immigrants who warn of increased radicalization among Oslo-Muslims. Bøhler advocates a softee-softee-catchee-monkey approach, rather than demonize-and-persecute. He might have a point. Unauthorized translation: – This last…
Aftenposten is a dirty liar!
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On Thursday October 28, Aftenposten served the following photo to unsuspecting readers: The text accompanying the picture goes…. ….Palestinian man restrained by Israeli Riot police in the PALESTINIAN town of Umm el Fahm in the North of Israel….. The picture…
Aftenposten fails geography test
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Aftenposten publishes photos, carrying an accompanying text, in the series “Verden i bilder” (The world in pictures). On September 26th the photo depicted a scene from the Jordan river. An NIJ irregular points out the following: “Aftenposten shows Christian pilgrims…
Journalism, Aftenposten style
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It appears Aftenposten is unable to relate events as they happen in Israel, at least judging by what they chose to print. Whilst it did print a story about a Hamas operative who was shot and killed when refusing to…
Aftenposten: Al-Qaida believes Norway part of Jewish-Crusader alliance
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Aftenposten is one of Norway’s largest newspapers. It’s chief editor is a former marxist and one of her journalists, who often covers Israel, is a former Palestine-activist who raised funds for the anti-US insurgents in Iraq. Aftenposten today reports that…
What mechanisms have led Norway to a “key role” in Palestine?
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Norway’s interests lie in the nordic region, with the EU, USA and with Russia. As for the Middle East, we obviously need to cooperate with OPEC. But how is it noble and necessary of Norway to seek to be the…
Is Israelphobia killing Norwegian soldiers in Afghanistan?
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In the commentary above we see editor Kjell Dragnes in Aftenposten points out that the Taliban in Afghanistan are flexible and adaptable, and that Norwegian forces must be so too. Dragnes also points out that although the security of our…
Aftenposten: ‘Boycott is a bad idea’
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The University of Oslo is scheduled to debate on whether or not to boycott Israel, the state the chattering classes love to lambast. Aftenposten, one of Norway’s largest two newspapers, points out in an editorial today that a boycott is…
Aftenposten sanitizes Sayid Qutb
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The screenshot above is of an article in Aftenposten on June 12th, on how Marjam Salvesen Bhatti, wife of synagogue-shooter Arfan Bhatti, lauds female suicide bombers on Facebook. The factbox to the right provides a rough outline of the concept…